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Experience:
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‘Black Mirror’: You May Have Missed These Two Big Celebrity Cameos in ‘USS Callister’
A pair of well-known actors make brief appearances in “Black Mirror” Season 4’s riff on “Star Trek”
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The 20 Best Guilty Pleasure Movies of 2017, From ‘Underworld’ to ‘Wolf Warrior 2’
These are the movies that are best at hitting your gut, not your brain
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2017 Has Ruined the ‘Star Wars’ Discourse (Commentary)
The age of Donald Trump has poisoned even our ability to debate whether “The Last Jedi” is a good movie
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‘SNL’: Leslie Jones Makes Kevin Hart Tongue Kiss a Stuffed Bear at a Christmas Party (Video)
She’s simply forcing him to live out his most secret fantasies in front of all his friends
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‘SNL’: Host Kevin Hart, Who Is Very Short, Delivers Dead-On Impersonation of Shaq (Video)
Being almost two feet shorter than Shaquille O’Neal doesn’t prevent Kevin Hart from nailing the impression
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‘SNL’: Host Kevin Hart Pees His Pants During a Meeting (Video)
“SNL” tells the story of standard American masculinity all too perfectly
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Does ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Feature an Homage to ‘The Phantom Menace’?
It’s a stark visual reference, courtesy of the villainous Kylo Ren
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Why the Disney-Fox Deal Won’t Be Good for Nerds, or Anyone Else (Commentary)
It’ll be a shame to swap Fox’s risk-taking ways for Disney’s mass-market formula
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‘Dark’ Showrunners Answer Our Nagging Questions About Season 1 and Tease Their Plans for Season 2
The first season of the Netflix series “Dark” leaves you with plenty to think about, and we went to the source to get answers
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Here’s the Shocking Thing That Happened on the ‘Walking Dead’ Mid-Season Finale
Major spoilers here, so if you don’t like spoilers and haven’t watched the mid-season finale of “The Walking Dead,” stay away
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‘SNL’ Host James Franco Loses It as Gift Wrapper Whose Papercut Turns Into Bloody Mess (Video)
But Franco keeps on wrapping the presents because he’s “a freakin’ nut for Christmas”
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‘SNL’: James Franco and Kenan Thompson Get Fired for Sexual Harassment (Video)
Except not everyone is happy to see Thompson, who plays the elderly man who works the front desk, be shown the door
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‘SNL’: Weekend Update Host Michael Che Goes Undercover as a Liberal White Woman (Video)
Che prepared for the transformation by reading Huffington Post and a Lena Dunham book
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First Reactions to ‘Star Wars: the Last Jedi’ Are In: ‘I Can’t Wait to See It Again’
The people who attended the world premiere of “The Last Jedi” liked it as much as they liked “Rogue One” and “The Force Awakens”
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What the Hell Is It About ‘Star Wars’ That Makes Us All Crazy? (Commentary)
“Star Wars” is a strange phenomenon that turns everyone into toxic nerds with an unhealthy obsession
